CANDYTUFT 
To have nice flower spikes for Mother’s Day, start 
seed in greenhouse early in January. 
Giant White Hyacinth-flowered. An extra-select 
Florist’s free-blooming strain, with nice 18-inch 
branching plants, each branch terminating in an 
immense spike of snow-white florets. Moz. 35c; 
oz. $1; 4b. $3; Ib. $9. 
Dwarf Mixed Umbellata. Compact, uniform plants, 
6 inches high, bearing quite large flower-umbels. 
Unexcelled for bedding plants. 1%4oz. 35c; oz. 90c; 
lb. $2.75; Ib. $8. 
CARNATION 
Start seed from January to March indoors and 
transplant to the garden in late May, 6 inches apart. 
Blooms from early summer right up to frost. 
Chabaud’s Giant Outdoor. These are of robust, 
upright form, 18 inches high, each plant with 
many stalks bearing huge, clove-scented, double 
flowers of fine form. Excellent for cutting. 
Formula Mixed. oz. 35c; Moz. $1.10; oz. $3.25; 
lb. $9.75; Ib. $29. 
CELOSIA Candytuft, Giant White Hyacinth-fld. 
For outdoor cutting sow the seed in May. They bloom continuously from midsummer 
until frost. For spring pot and flat plant sale start the seed indoors in March and transplant. 
Cristata, Dwarf Empress. Cockscomb. Dwarf 10-inch plants with dark bronze foliage and 
enormous crimson heads like a cockscomb. Véoz. 30c; oz. 85c; oz. $2.50; lb. $7.50. 
Cristata, Dwarf Mixed. Cockscomb. These dwarf, 1-foot plants are very uniform, bearing 
bright flowers in many colors, including crimson, rose, orange, gold and white. They are 
fine for borders. Jgoz. 30c; 40z. 85c; oz. $2.50; 4 Ib. $7.50. 
Cristata, Toreador. All-America, 1955. Huge, bright red cockscombs on light green, 20-inch 
plants. Easily grown and has many uses. Ygoz. $1.35; Moz. $2.20; Woz. $4; oz. $12. 
Plumosa, Golden Fleece. Many feathery, clear golden yellow plumes to each 214-foot plant. 
Fine to cut-and-come-again, stands heat; is pest free. leoz. 35c; 4oz. $1; oz. $3; VY lb. $9. 
Plumosa, Pampas Plume, Mixed. Quick growing, big fleecy feathery flower plumes in brilliant 
colors. Fine heat-loving, pest-free cut-flowers. loz. 35c; oz. $1; oz. $3; Ib. $9. 
Plumosa, Ostrich Plumed, Mixed. Hand- 
some plants of symmetrical, pyramidal 
growth, 2 feet high, each branch topped 
with a richly colored plume. They make 
gorgeous display beds from July until 
September in crimson, fiery red, scarlet 
and yellow. They are very effective in 
massed plantings. loz. 35c; Moz. 65c; 
oz. $2; Ib. $6. 
Pyramidalis, Dwarf Fiery Feather, fiery red 
and Dwarf Golden Feather, golden yellow. 
A plumed Pyramidalis type fine for bed- 
ding and for spring pot-plants. Perfect 
pyramids, 12 inches high, with spires 
branching mostly from the base of the 
plant. Each, lgoz. 45c; Woz. $1.35; oz. $4; 
M4lb. $12. 
WHITE-LEAVED CENTAUREA 
Dusty Miller. Used for edging, the glisten- 
ing white foliage making a striking co trast 
with bright coleus, salvias or red cannas. 
Start the seed indoors in January or February. 
Gymnocarpa. Ornamental, round bushes, 
2 feet high, of silvery gray, fernlike foliage, 
ee and fmne for hanging-baskets and edging. 
Celosia, Toreador Yyoz. 35c; oz. 90c; Ib. $2.75. 
Morris Turnpike, Millburn, N. J. 29 Annual Flower Seeds 
